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James AndresCreditAttribution: James Andres commented 17 July 2009 at 18:41

I wasn't aware of the exportables module until, just, after creating this one (thanks Robert Douglass).

I'm reviewing the exportables module, from what I have seen I like its approach. I'm in favour of joining forces, it looks like the exportables project is in its infancy and could use some contributors.

Also extremely busy, but extremely interested in progress in this arena and may be able to devote time to it in the future, so "subscribe", if you will - and I'll re-visit when time/client needs permit. =)

So, just to float some ideas around until I (or some other brave soul) can sit down to write a preliminary patch for this. Am I right in assuming that we'll need some way to manage machine names for terms, much in the same way Features is managing machine names for vocabularies?

Taxonomy_xml is striving to be platform agnostic and its import and export formats avoid any Drupalisms - RDF taxa are the format of choice, though a half dozen alternatives are also consumed.

Taxonomy_xml is looking towards the source taxonomies being shared, remote resources, retrieved on-the-fly form URLs or web services - not distributed as files. I can do files (a dozen samples are included with the distro, and can also be distributed wih features now), but I'd rather do remote updates.
EG The MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) index I'm redistributing for (remote) re-import to your own site

... this therefore has a number of differences from this project, but maybe there is also some common ground